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"Mr President, it is a pleasure for me, on behalf of my British Conservative colleagues and as Internal Market Committee coordinator for the PPE-DE Group, to thank the Austrian Presidency for what I think has been a Presidency of real substance and real achievement – I have to say in contrast to their predecessors in the previous six months.
The characteristic of this Presidency, Chancellor Schüssel, has been that you have been essentially realistic. You have not overpromised, but you have got on and delivered. I think the Services Directive has perhaps been the best example of that. Your colleague Martin Bartenstein, who I have got to know very well over the last six months, was quoted in the
in December saying that it would be a miracle if you achieved agreement on the Services Directive during your Presidency. Well, there is a remarkable piece of underpromising and overdelivery! That miracle has been achieved by a lot of work between us in this Parliament. I have to say to Mr Schulz, who I was astonished to hear just now claiming that the Services Directive appeared to be a triumph of orthodoxy, that miracle was actually achieved by serious work to produce a liberalising free market directive. In fact, the central clause that unlocked the agreement – the freedom to provide services – came as a result of the committee vote in this Parliament, which was contested by the Socialists. So, let us be clear about what the Services Directive is going to deliver. It is a major step forward for the internal market.
Finally, Chancellor Schüssel, it has been most welcome to see your approach to opening up the Council as regards codecision and in inviting parliamentarians to your meetings. I am very disappointed that my own Foreign Secretary has apparently been against this transparency. All I would say to Mr Schulz is that, when I sat round the table in Graz and heard the approach of the 25 ministers on the Services Directive, it was most certainly not because they felt that it was a triumph for socialism."@en1
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